[WWI] Fokker EIII frame colour

Diego Fernetti dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar
Wed Nov 4 09:05:21 EST 2009


Dave!
> Eduard give a mid-grey colour for the framing on the E!!!. Looking at the 
> pics on the site, and from memory,  I
> wonder what the colour of the framing actually is. They pics in the 
> cockpit area look to be a grey-green (not
> unlike RL..no, not going there!!) whereas those at the rear of the 
> fuselage look darker.

I'd go with a greenish gray. And unless you're building one of those pesky 
photoetched kits you don't need to worry about the colour of framing behind 
the cockpit!

> Could be weathering, could be the framing has been cleaned up in the 
> cockpit - or has it been repainted during one
> of the restorations? Note the fuel tank in overpainted as well. Do we 
> think Fokker would do this?

The Science Museum Fokker?
Hardly in original condition.
D. 



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